Jerry

joined 8 months ago
[–] Jerry@feddit.online 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Corrected link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/indian-grocery-startup-kiranapro-was-hacked-and-its-servers-deleted-ceo-confirms/

But, if you're looking for information like when/if it will be back up and what data may have been stolen, forget about it. There is more focus on the drama around the incident than what is most important, at least at this time.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 9 points 14 hours ago

Yep, it's enabled now on https://feddit.online/

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 11 points 15 hours ago

As a believer in the Fediverse, thank you to all those involved in lemm.ee. You are the pioneers that helped grow this wonderful alternative to corporate-owned media, especially Reddit, and proved it's viable and better. Thanks for all you've done! I wish you the best.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is no valid reason to dislike trans people. There is no valid reason to care if someone is trans. There is no valid reason to treat trans people differently.

You can substitute any color, religion, and culture for the word trans too.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Some points:

  1. Many companies still send email without DMARC policies in their DNS. You'd be throwing away emails you ought to read.
  2. Why just no DMARC? Why aren't you also wanting to toss DMARC policies of p=none? What's the difference between, "I don't care, so I didn't set up a DMARC policy" and "I set up a DMARC policy so people stop complaining, but I turned it off because I don't care?" The result, for you, is identical. Spoofed emails will get delivered.
  3. A policy of p=quarantine is almost as bad. So spoofed email ends up in the spam folder along with a bunch of email that isn't a problem. We've been trained to not trust spam folders.
  4. If it isn't a policy of "reject" the email just can't be trusted is the bottom line.
  5. A lot of spam comes in from domains with a DMARC policy, even with a reject policy because the email passes the SPF check because it came from either their own email server or a compromised one or passes DKIM checks.

Your idea of tossing email without DMARC will not give you the results you hope for. You'll miss important emails, and you'll still get a steady flow of spam.

BTW, an extremely well-known cybersecurity expert's newsletter (Brian Krebs) goes out from a domain that is missing a DMARC policy! This just shows how not used it is.

I have checks in my email client and I put red tags on emails that aren't p=reject or that fail SPF or DKIM checks, so I'm extra careful. This is better than just tossing email with no DMARC policy.

I know this doesn't answer your question, but maybe you should think about whether you really want to do this.

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So, while he accelerates toward it until near the speed of light in his original frame of reference, he will detect the oncoming photon as gamma radiation, but in my frame of reference where I'm not accelerating and just idling, and looking at the same photon, I'll still see the photon as not gamma radiation at all?

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 5 points 1 week ago

This is the only time when the media should quote morons, not before elections.

 

'Chicago Sun-Times' Slammed After Letting AI Generate Summer Reading List—Full Of Fake Book Titles

 

'Chicago Sun-Times' Slammed After Letting AI Generate Summer Reading List—Full Of Fake Book Titles

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's amazing that a company can get public officials to sign an agreement making it illegal for them to give any information to their electorate about a project that would have a huge impact on them in every possible way. No elected official should ever sign such an agreement. Why would they? But, they did. Corruption is the only reason I can think of.

And why is there no law against elected officials agreeing to become agents of a corporation against the interest of the electorate? Same answer, probably.

But all these people were elected by the ones they are hurting. And the electorate most likely elected their leaders based on some emotional non-existent issues instead of picking leaders based on commitment, honesty, competency, and a desire to help people. From what I see from the rest of the country, and we are talking about Alabama here, they may have gotten the government and outcome that they deserve and are actually responsible for their own problem. I think American voters are bringing all of this personal damage upon themselves.

I'm a disillusioned American, by the way.

 

Need some good news about the fight against Corporations violating your privacy? This is a great ruling! This gives States big teeth to go against companies who violate state laws that protect privacy.

The key issue was whether Shopify’s actions were “expressly aimed” at California. Shopify argued that it was “mere happenstance” that its conduct affected a consumer in California ..."

Ninth Circuit Court:
"Pre-internet, there would be no doubt that the California courts would have specific personal jurisdiction over a third party who physically entered a Californian’s home by deceptive means to take personal information from the Californian’s files for its own commercial gain. Here, though Shopify’s entry into the state of California is by electronic means ..."

"... not “mere happenstance” because, among other things, Shopify allegedly knew plaintiff's location either prior to or shortly after installing its initial tracking software on his device as well as those of other Californians.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/ninth-circuit-hands-users-big-win-californians-can-sue-out-state-corporations

#EFF #Shopify

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 4 points 1 month ago

This is awesome! The hits just keep on coming!

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you! You saved me a bunch of time.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Jerry@feddit.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

There are many #Friendica fans, and for good reason. Once you get past the learning curve from the difficult UI, you get to appreciate the extra benefits of built-in #Bluesky, #Lemmy/#Piefed/#MBIN, #Tumblr, and #RSS feed integration. It also has #Diasporia integration and some other protocol integrations. Of course, it's also a #Mastodon alternative.

Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app, but it has Groups, which is built-in Threadiverse capability. If you follow a Community on Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN, for example, it gets categorized as a group and is placed into a separate section for the groups you are part of. Then you can read and post in the Group (Community/Magazine) just like you would on a Threadiverse application. You can also create public and private groups.

And there is no need to use a Bluesky bridge if the Friendica instance you are on has the integration turned on.

Here's an excellent 5-minute video showing Friendica created by @earthman@my-place.social for those interested in seeing how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFGLRgnaeLc

 

Hey, Threadiverse! I'm looking for informed opinions on database choices.

I can stand up an Internet-facing application and have it use either MySQL or PostgreSQL. Which is the better choice, and why do you think so?

Thanks!

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Antisocial Media (feddit.online)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Jerry@feddit.online to c/communitypromo@lemmy.ca
 

Dedicated to antisocial behavior of social media corporations, censorship, algorithmic bias, filter bubbles, privacy and psychological effects of mainstream social media.

Articles like:

  • Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
  • Meta dumps fact-checkers
    -Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’

!antisocialmedia@piefed.social
https://feddit.online/c/antisocialmedia@piefed.social

 
 

The Digital Ocean outage on 28-Nov-2024 was caused by a mistaken clientHold put on DigitalOceanSpaces.com by Network Solutions, probably by one person, which continued for hours because a bevy of clueless VeriSign executives, notified in multiple escalations, didn't know who to contact to reverse this simple mistake that lead to a major corporation bleeding revenue and reputation.

Imagine if Network Solutions accidentally put a clientHold on your domain. You'd have to kiss your domain goodbye because a lot of VeriSign executives will not be helping you, even if they could.

"DigitalOcean is working with Network Solutions to understand what happened on their end that resulted in the clientHold being applied to our domain incorrectly. In addition, we are reviewing other domain registrars as possible new homes for our domains."

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jm44h02t22ck

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